Concrete Contractor in Evanston, Illinois
Driveways, patios, sidewalks, garage floors, and stamped concrete for homes and businesses in Evanston and the North Shore. Free written estimates, straight answers, and concrete mixed for this climate.
Serving Evanston, Skokie, Wilmette, and nearby North Shore towns
Evanston Concrete Co is a concrete contractor based in Evanston, Illinois. We install and replace concrete driveways, patios, sidewalks and walkways, garage floors, and stamped or decorative finishes for homeowners, landlords, and small commercial properties across Evanston and the nearby North Shore. Estimates are free, written, and explained line by line in plain English before any work is scheduled.
Concrete work here is not the same job it is two counties west. USDA soil mapping shows sandy ground along the Ridge and the lakefront corridor and heavy, slow draining clay complexes across much of north and west Evanston, with large areas of the city mapped simply as urban fill. That is why we verify what is actually under your slab before we pour, instead of assuming your street matches a soil map or your neighbor's tear out. The base under the concrete decides how the concrete behaves in February.
Concrete Driveway Replacement in Evanston
The driveway is the biggest slab most Evanston homes own, and the one that takes the worst beating from plows, parked cars, and salt dripping off both. We handle full driveway replacement, new driveways, widening, and the apron where your driveway crosses city property. That apron matters more than most homeowners expect. Evanston will not allow street or improved alley openings between November 15 and March 31, so an apron that needs work in October is a very different conversation than the same apron in December. The details, the permits, and the timeline all live on our concrete driveways page.
Concrete Patio Installation in Evanston
A patio is the cheapest square footage you can add to an Evanston house, but it is not zoning free. The city caps how much of a residential lot can be covered by impervious surface, and solid concrete counts against that cap at full value while permeable systems earn a discount. Sizing a patio without checking that number first is how projects stall in review. We walk through size, placement, and finish before anything is priced. Start with the three decisions on our concrete patios page.
Sidewalk Repair and Replacement in Evanston
Under Evanston's city code, the sidewalk in front of your house is your responsibility to maintain, not the city's. The city does run a cost sharing program that pays half when a square qualifies, and knowing the eligibility rules before you call 311 can cut your out of pocket cost roughly in half. We replace public sidewalk squares and private walkways, and we explain how the 50/50 program actually works, including the current rate the city charges per square foot, on our sidewalks and walkways page.
Garage Floor Replacement in Evanston
Evanston garages are where winter goes to do damage. Cars drip brine and rock salt onto the slab all season, and a floor that was troweled too tight or poured without air entrainment starts flaking in a few winters. We replace garage floors in attached and detached garages, pour slabs for new garages and ADUs, and build to the details Evanston's residential code actually spells out, like the four inch step up it requires between a garage slab and the door into the house. Specs and honest answers are on the garage floors page.
Stamped and Decorative Concrete in Evanston
Stamped concrete gives you the look of stone or pavers in a single structural slab, with no joints to grow weeds and no individual units to settle out of plane. Pattern, color, and sealer choices decide whether it still looks right in ten years. One Evanston specific wrinkle: in the city's four local historic districts, decorative work visible from the street can trigger preservation review before a permit is issued. Patterns, color systems, and that process are covered on the stamped and decorative concrete page.
How Much Does Concrete Work Cost in Evanston?
Nobody can price your project without seeing it, but Evanston publishes real numbers you can use to sanity check any bid. The city's 50/50 sidewalk program charges homeowners $8.40 per square foot for their half of a replaced square in 2026. Double that and you get the city's own effective rate, about $16.80 per square foot, for straightforward public flatwork done at municipal volume. Residential projects carry tear out, grading, access, and finish choices that municipal work does not, so most private work prices above that floor, but a bid wildly out of line with it deserves questions.
Permits are a real line item too, and they are not where the money goes. A residential driveway permit is $35, the building permit base fee runs 2 percent of construction cost, and a residential apron in the right of way is $50. When a bid treats permits as a big number, something else is hiding in it. What actually moves price: square footage, how much old concrete has to come out and be hauled, the condition of the base underneath, reinforcement, and the finish. We break down the drivers per project on the driveway cost and patio cost sections.
What to Expect When You Hire a Concrete Contractor in Evanston
Evanston regulates this trade more tightly than most nearby towns, which is good news for homeowners who know what to check. Any contractor pulling a permit here must be registered with the city, with Concrete and Excavation named as registrable trades, and must carry at least $300,000 per occurrence in general liability coverage. Work in the public right of way, which includes your driveway apron and the parkway, raises that requirement to $1,000,000. Asking a bidder whether their Evanston registration is current is a thirty second question that filters out a surprising share of the field.
A typical project with us runs in plain steps. You call or send the form, we look at the site, and you get a written estimate with the scope spelled out. If the job needs a permit, and in Evanston flatwork does, the paperwork includes a plat of survey and the city inspects the work it permits. Then tear out, base correction, forms, pour, finish, and cure. We tell you when you can walk on it and when you can park on it, and those are two different dates.
Concrete That Survives Evanston Winters
Evanston's own residential code classifies this area as severe for concrete weathering, and the numbers explain why. Chicago's climate normals put December through February daytime highs above freezing and nightly lows below it, which means slabs here freeze and thaw over and over each winter instead of freezing once and staying frozen. Add an average 38.4 inches of snow, plus the salt that follows every inch of it, and unprotected concrete fails from the surface down.
That is why exterior mixes here are air entrained, finished so bleed water is out before the surface is closed, and cured before their first salt season. It is chemistry, not upsell. Salt and freeze thaw cycles are also the failure mode we design garage floors around, covered on the garage floors page.
(847) 380-8138Reviews from Evanston Homeowners
Real Google reviews from real projects around town.
We added a small concrete pad for our shed. Simple project but they still took their time and did it right.
The ground near our side gate stayed messy all year, so we had concrete installed there. It came out simple but very practical.
Recent Work
A few recent pours. Finishes, borders, and layouts we build day in and day out.
Areas We Serve Around Evanston
We work across Evanston, from the lakefront and the Northwestern campus area to the neighborhoods off Ridge Avenue, Green Bay Road, Chicago Avenue, Central Street, Dempster Street, and Main Street. Beyond Evanston we serve Skokie, Wilmette, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, and Niles. If you are outside that range, call anyway and we will point you toward someone closer.
Hours: Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 3pm, closed Sunday.
Phone: (847) 380-8138 (call or text)
Email: evanstonconcretecompany@gmail.com
Based in: Evanston, IL 60201
Concrete Questions Evanston Homeowners Ask
Yes. We look at the project, measure it, and give you a written estimate at no cost and with no obligation. If the honest answer is that your concrete does not need replacement yet, we say that too.
Yes. Replacement projects include breaking out the old concrete, hauling the debris, and correcting the base before the new pour. Old concrete leaves the property, it does not get buried under the new slab.
Evanston is home base, and we also take projects in Skokie, Wilmette, Lincolnwood, Morton Grove, Glenview, Kenilworth, Winnetka, and Niles. Farther than that, we will usually refer you to someone closer rather than pad a bid with drive time.
Get a Free Estimate
Tell us what you are looking to build or replace and where the property is. We will follow up within one business day, usually sooner, and set a time to look at the site. You get a written estimate with the scope spelled out, and you will never get a hard sell from us.
Prefer to talk to a person? Call or text (847) 380-8138. Monday to Friday 8am to 5pm, Saturday 9am to 3pm.
Get a Free Estimate
Tell us about the project and we will get back to you within one business day. Prefer to talk? Call or text (847) 380-8138.